totalitarianism (2009-2010)

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life (total control of the population)

Examples.How do they do this?

Tools of Totalitarian Governments

One Party RuleViolation of Human RightsSecret PoliceState Supremacy over Individual

RightsCensorshipPropaganda

TheState

PowerHere

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Democratic Model

State serves the individual and may be replaced as expendable if it violates personal right to life, liberty or property

What does this say about democracy?

TheState

I I I I I

Fascist Model

- State =eternal,lasting

- State casts aside all who do not serve its purpose

Individuals own everything, but it’s controlled by the gov’t

Individual exists toserve the State (a tool)

PowerHere

- Driven by nationalistic or ethnic divisions

TheState

I I I I I

Communist Model

- State =eternal,lasting

Collectivization = Collect everything for the state

PowerHere - Don’t focus

as much on nationalistic or ethnic ties

Every individual is equal

One-party rule

A single political party forms the government and no other parties are permitted to run candidates for election

Good or bad? Why?

Human Rights Violations

Basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.

Stalin and HitlerWhat did they do to violate

human rights?

Secret Police

Come up with a definitionHow did Hitler and Stalin use

the secret police and what was it called?

Stalin (Russia) – NKVDHitler (Germany) – Gestapo

State Supremacy over Individual Rights

PropagandaCensorshipsuppression of speech or deletion

of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor

Put in your own words.

“We Live, Not Feeling”Osip Mandelstam, 1934?

What is the theme?Name the different “tools of

totalitarianism” found in the poem.

We live, not feeling the country beneath us,Our speech inaudible ten steps away,But where they're up to half a conversation -- They'll speak of the Kremlin mountain man.

His thick fingers are fat like worms,And his words certain as pound weights.His cockroach whiskers laugh,And the tops of his boots glisten.

And all around his rabble of thick-skinned leaders,He plays through services of half-people.Some whistle, some meow, some snivel,He alone merely caterwauls and prods.

Like horseshoes he forges decree after decree -- Some get it in the forehead, some in the brow,    some in the groin, and some in the eye.Whatever the execution -- it's a raspberry to himAnd his Georgian chest is broad.

Propaganda

Propaganda is a type of message aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of people German

catechism

Stalin’s Reign

http://www.johndclare.net/images/Thief.jpg

How did totalitarianism happen?

- Russia1) Gave up land (to Germany) to get out of WWI2) Tremendous loss (land & people)3) Didn’t participate in Treaty of Versailles

- Germany1) Reparations2) War-guilt clause3) Demilitarization

Works Cited

Parts of this taken from dmcdowell or www.ahistoryteacher.com